The Microsoft hosted SharePoint is a CMS (Content Management System) utilized by most major companies from all across the world. You can get the latest version called SharePoint 2010 which is available now. The Microsoft SharePoint allows its users to work in web based collaborative environment. The annual sales of this product have exceeded $1 billion and it is used by companies like EasyJet and Electronic Arts for their intranet websites and by organizations like Ferrari and Startbucks for their open to public websites. The first SharePoint version was introduced in 2000 and it was only a document managing and indexing application. Three more versions have been launched since and each with added features, the latest being SharePoint 2010.
SharePoint 2010
The SharePoint 2010 released in the year 2010 is the latest version of Microsoft hosted SharePoint. In this edition it departs away from the Microsoft Office suite and has acquired its individual brand. It is a big upgrade which gives enterprise grade services and features. In addition to that a brand new user interface has been added incorporating Office Ribbon. Its My Sites function has become a social networking tool now. It now provides tools for activity feeds and status updates that form the basis for new features utilized for knowledge management in SharePoint 2010. It can now search a sent email in the Outlook for recurring terms in order to add user profiles that help in automating the process of user profile updating.
As there was little support for accessing the SharePoint via mobile devices before, the problem has been rectified and this support is set to increase with the latest version of SharePoint 2010. And a key to this is the SharePoint Workspace Mobile software and the mobile phone operating system Windows Mobile 7. This provides the cell phone users with the capability to interact with other colleagues, information and office documents. And in addition to this, the brand new Office Hub for this same operating system connects the Office environment on user’s desktop to their mobile phone and thereby bring collaboration and productivity in a simpler manner as compared to the older cell phones.
In addition to the Windows Mobile 7, the SharePoint 10 boasts of a user interface that is designed to work normally on other mobile devices as well and is also capable of detecting a touch device such as the Apple iPhone. It puts the different links slightly wider apart so that they are simple to touch.